Dear officials,

I wish you a good day. My name is Umut Arda Erce. I was born on December 23, 2003. After
graduating from İçel Anatolian High School, the best high school in my city, I am a student with a
good level of English studying at the Department of Mathematics at Middle East Technical University,
one of the top 3 universities in Turkey, in Ankara. At the same time, I teach Mathematics and Physics
in various private teaching institutions in the city I live in and give private lessons in these areas. I am
writing you this motivation letter to apply for the Erasmus project you have organized.

I am currently working in the Natural Life Association, dealing with paperwork, providing
communication between national and international agencies and other institutions. I do Turkish
translations of incoming mails and documents in English. Apart from this, I guide the young people
and children who have just joined the association, and listen to their problems about the association.
I help young people to send and apply to Erasmus projects, and I lead them when we organize
volunteering projects as a team. When necessary, I prepare video edits about projects, erasmus and
my association.

Previously, I have been an organizer, manager, participant and volunteer in many national and
international organizations. (I shared photos of a few of them on the last page.) As an example, the
subject of one of the Model United Nations projects, an international youth project that I
participated in 10 times as a manager, delegate and coordinator, was the subject of your project.
After producing solutions for this problem, we prepared a detailed solution report and sent it to the
United Nations. This experience gave me the opportunity to think about the subject of your project
and to come up with a solution. In addition, these MUN projects I participated in gave me the
opportunity to manage a hall full of people, to lead, to produce solutions, to discuss, to prepare
reports regularly enough to convey my thoughts to a serious institution like the UN, and to learn to
speak English in an official language.

I also organized the same volunteer TEDxyouth at my high school. The long e-mails I had with Tedx
managers to get a TEDx license taught me patience. Arranging places, speakers, etc. for my team to
do TEDx taught me skills such as organizational ability, team management, and dealing with
unexpected problems.

Occasionally, I took care of orphan children by participating in projects with my high school school.
For some reason, I collected garbage in nature to clean the environment with the associations I am a
member of. From all of these projects, I learned skills such as teamwork, taking responsibility, team
management, stress control, and making people listen to me.

For me, volunteering represents a win-win situation where I learn to deal with problems by both
contributing to my environment and improving myself. I am glad that I can contribute something to
my environment by completing spiritual assignments. Apart from that, it is a fact that volunteering
activities are often more fun and socializing than working in a normal job. Especially in Erasmus
projects. In the projects you have organized before, I have seen both my peers and older young
people who can add new things to me.

I chose this project among the many projects in the database, since this project seemed to be the
most interesting one among the projects I found in the database and would add new things to me.
Because the subject, location and country of the project was the most suitable combination for me.
The subject of the project is a subject that I've watched documentaries about before and I've done a
lot of research. I want to study and learn more about this topic.

Apart from that, your country was a country that I always wondered about itself and its culture. I
have heard from people who have participated in Erasmus projects before that the projects there are
quite good. That's why I chose this country. I'm curious about your country's famous dishes. Apart
from that, I quite like the aesthetics and architecture of the buildings in the country. I want to
examine the structures, sculptures, places of worship in the place I'm going to, take their photos and
compare them with the aesthetics of my country.

The project develops me in areas such as cooperation, teamwork, stress and crisis control; I hope it
will make me emotionally stronger while solving problems with my teammates. I also think that it will
inform me about the subject of your project and make me more experienced. Thus, when I return to
my country, I can apply what I learned in the training course in the projects and volunteers we
organize with my association in my country. I can teach what I have learned to young people who are
members of my association and other youth workers.

I plan to become a professor of mathematics in your country when I graduate. Since I will be working
with young people in your project and in my work, I believe that the project will help me in my
business life and my current university life, especially in my communication and working together
with young people.

I am a hardworking person who takes care to do the job given to me completely and not to rest
before finishing a job. You can be sure that I will use the competence that I have gained in a
considerable amount of project and volunteering work since high school to ensure that your project
achieves its purpose without any problems. Especially in the MUN project, where I am the manager, I
had the opportunity to work and research with a hall full of people for days on your project topic.
Apart from this, I have volunteered in many projects related to the subject of the project before. I
can also do video editing, I can edit the videos requested during the project, project promotion and
souvenir videos. Since I'm on the college fight teams, I can help with security. Since I am a math
teacher, I can help with math-related tasks during the project. I can teach and guide the local youth,
my teammates, by making them understand the logic with proofs. I am also good at taking photos. I
can take photos of the event during the project.

If you think I am a suitable person for your project, I would be happy to work with you. If you have
any questions please don't hesitate to ask. You can reach me at the following contact addresses. I will
be waiting for a positive response.

Kind regards,

Umut Arda Erçe E-mail: Umutardaerce10@gmail.com Tel No: +905375963370